Fastener for trousers



iclnirrnn Sra'rss hnrnnrr RUDOLPH L. ZARETZKY, OF CHICAGO, lLLlNOlS.

FASTENER FQR TROUSERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 546,213, datedSeptember 10, 1895.

Application filed April 16, 1895 To us whom it may concern Be it knownthat I, RUDOLPH L. ZARETZKY, a citizen of the United States, residing atChicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Fasteners for Trousers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

lily invention relates to improvements in fasteners of the classconstructed on the principle of the hook and eye and now very generallyemployed in the place of buttons and buttonholes for fastening togetherthe meeting flaps of trousers at the fronts and tops or waisthandsthereof. The fasteners of this class hitherto in general use have beenso constructed as to necessitate their beingsecured to the trouseri'lapsby sewing, and are objectionable mainly for the reason that the hook andloop pieces must be fastened in place by sewing them upon strips ofcloth which are in turn sewed in the waistband, all of which istroublesome, and, unless care is exercised, insecure. Furthermore, asthe parts must be sewed in place separately, any deviation frommeasurements,

which must be carefully made, will cause the parts to be out of registerwhen the flaps are to be closed and fastened. A further objection to thefasteners hitherto employed isthat they must in practice he sewed inplace before the trousers are finished and pressed, andin the pressingoperation the presence of the hook and loop is apt to cause the goose toleave a shiny surface on the trousers material where it covers thefastener.

My object is to provide a fastener of the above class which may beattached to the flaps without the necessity of sewing, and afford aparticularly strong and durable securing means for its purpose, andwhich may be applied after the trousers are pressed, and in a manner toobviate all danger of the parts being out of register.

To the above ends my invention consists in the general and details ofconstruction and combinations of parts of my improved fastoner, ashereinafter described and claimed in the drawings, Figure l is a brokenperspective view of a portion of a pair of trousers, showing the flapsprovided with my improved fastener; Fig. 2, a plan view of the blankfrom which the hook-piece portion of the fastener is formed; Fig. 3, asection on line 3 of Fig.

Serial No. 545,943. (No m d l.)

1; Figs. tand 5, plan views of the parts forming the loop portion of thefastener, and Fig. 6 a section taken on line 6 of Fig. 1.

A is the hook-piece portion of the fastener, which is formed from theblank (shown in Fig. 2) by bending the lattercn itself at the dottedline as, whereby the portion A becomes 'the outer plate and the portionA the inner plate of the hook-piece. The blank is preferably stamped outof asheet or strip of more or less pliable sheet metal, the outer plateA being formed with one or more, but preferably two, points z,projecting from its corners, and a tongue 5, which should be raisedslightly from a body of the plate and shaped as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.The plate material should also be cut away to produce the opening 7' inthe tongue and which extends past the line 9;,

as indicated in Fig. 2. In the plate portion A are slots g, which are inposition to register with and receive the points 25 when the lat ter arebent to extend at right angles to the body portion of the plate A.

The loop-piece portion B comprises a front strip B, terminating atopposite ends in shoulders p and points 22, which, as the devices areprovided, are bent to a right angle to the body portion at the dottedlines y and a back strip 13 provided at opposite end portions withsockets n at a distance apart equal to that be tween the dotted lines yy in Fig. 4. 1

Before applying the fastener to a pair of trousers the latter may becompleted and pressed ready for the wearer, the usual openingbeing'left, however, in the seam at the edge e of the flap Z, betweenthe inner and outer thicknesses or layers of cloth, for the insertion ofthe hook-piece A, and the lining on the inner side of the flap Z is leftopen at its edge for a short distance for the insertion of the part B ofthe loop-piece. The part A of the hook-piece is passed into the openingthus left in the edge of the flap Z, to cause the 9 front and backplates to embrace the inner layer of the flap, and the pointstareinserted through the cloth of the flap Z. The position of the loop isthus accurately located. The back plate B is then passed between the in?nor lining and outer cloth of the flap Z, to receive at its slots 01 thepoints p, which latter are then upset upon the rear face of the plate Bas shown in Fig. 6. lVhen the fas tener is in place, the opening at theedge of the lining of the flap Z may be closed by sewing, and the innerand outer thicknesses of cloth of the flap Z should also be fastenedtogether with a stitch at z through the opening r of the tongue. Thepoints passing through the cloth and back plates and upset upon thelatter, as described, aitord an exceedingly strong and durable securingmeans. The metal should be of a thickness sutficient to prevent thepoints, as they are passed through the cloth and in after use fromcutting the threads of the latter, and to give sufficient strength tothe tongue and loop. The back plates tend greatly to strengthen theparts and render them secure without their; presence being apparent.

Altogether my improved fastener possesses qualities which render it moredesirable, both to the tailor who applies it and to the wearer of thetrousers, than any other fastener of which I am aware.

. hat I claim as new, and. desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A fastener for tronsersfiaps, comprising, in combination, ahook-piece formed with a front-plate provided with a tongue and apliable cloth-penetrating point, and a back-plate, parallel with thefront plate, and provided With a shoulder to engage the upset point, anda loop-piece, substantially as described.

2. A fastener for trousers-flaps, comprising, in combination, ahook-piece A formed with an opening 1', a front-plate A, provided with atongue .9, and pliable cloth penetrating points i, and a back-plate Ahaving point-receiving slots q, and a loop-piece, substantially asdescribed.

RUDOLPH L. ZARETZKY.

